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Episode 61: Say it ain't so: Writing Negative Messages

6m · Teaching Writing: Ideas and Strategies · 13 Aug 00:00

How can you deliver bad news while maintaining the best chance of not alienating your reader? This episode, based on Chapter 8 of Business Communication: Rhetorical Situations (Broadview.com), explains how to organize bad news messages.

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